1949 U.S. Women's Open

1949 U.S. Women's Open

Tournament information
Dates	September 22–25, 1949
Location	Landover, Maryland
Course(s)	Prince George's Country Club
Format	Stroke play – 72 holes
Statistics
Par	75
Length	6,892 yards (6,302 m)[1]
Winner's share	$1,500
Champion
Louise Suggs
291 (−9)
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Prince Georges
Country Club

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Location in the United States

The 1949 U.S. Women's Open was the fourth U.S. Women's Open, held September 22–25 at Prince George's Country Club in Landover, Maryland, a suburb east of Washington, D.C.

Louise Suggs led wire-to-wire^[1] and won the first of her two U.S. Women's Open titles, fourteen strokes ahead of runner-up Babe Zaharias, the defending champion.^[2] It was the fourth of eleven major championships for Suggs.

The course no longer exists and is now the site of Kentland Community Center Park.^[3]

Sunday, September 25, 1949

Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
1	Louise Suggs	69-75-77-70=291	−9	1,500
2	Babe Zaharias	74-76-75-80=305	+5	1,000
3	Carol Diringer (a)	75-76-77-78=306	+6	0
T4	Patty Berg	73-84-78-75=310	+10	800
	Dot Kielty (a)	74-83-76-77=310		0
T6	Marlene Bauer (a)	75-78-78-80=311	+11	0
	Beverly Hanson (a)	72-81-75-83=311
	Mae-Murray Jones (a)	78-78-79-76=311
	Frances Stephens (a)	75-81-80-75=311
10	Polly Riley (a)	75-83-79-75=312	+12	0

• USGA final leaderboard
• U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship
• U.S. Women's Open – past champions – 1949

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